Marc Franklin
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COW Coins
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I haven’t played with imovie in about 20 years, but I know it wasn’t meant for things like Metadata. I recently used Premiere Pro’s metadata window to confirm when something important took place. I believe it had the time and date it was shot, and the camera settings. I would try that.
As far as batch renaming, I don’t know of anything for video clips. I have had to do that before. It’s not fun. What I did was copy the name of the clip and do a rename, and paste over everything but the clip number. Ex: Birthday_Pty-101.mov. Try that. I think it would be faster than a recapture.
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Try emailing Neil Matsumoto, he is one of their camera reps. If he can’t help you, he should be able to get you to the person that can. neil.matsumoto@us.panasonic.com
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I don’t have the same camera or lens, so I can’t give you a direct answer, but I would try calling a Panasonic authorized dealer or official support center. Many times they have someone who can work with you over the phone. This has helped me in the past.
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Does the tape have breaks in the timecode? That can throw it off. You can also get an inexpensive SDI card and capture it as pro res. I haven’t used FCP in a long time, so I don’t know if that would work. I capture a lot from the SDI on My DSR-2000 through a Blackmagic Design H264 Pro Recorder and and the BMD capture app that works with their capture devices. It captures a whole tape with broken timecode without issue to PCs. I imagine it would work the same on a Mac.
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Amazon has them.
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Find a TBC. The difference is night and day. Most digitizers won’t work properly without a TBC before it. If you can’t find a stand alone TBC, depending where you are you may be able to find a cheap Betacam SP recorder that will allow you to pass the video signal through its built in TBC. I have done this before with Betacam SP recorders and Panasonic AG-7750 pro S-VHS decks.
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What deck are you using? Are you using a TBC? What quality are you looking for?